What is I-O?

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of working and the application of that science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations.
The scientific method is applied to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.

Sidney A. Fine Grant for Research on Job Analysis

The SIOP Foundation is pleased to announce funding for the Sidney A. Fine Grant for Research on Job Analysis in 2007. This grant is for research on analytic strategies to study jobs and is designed to support research that will further the usefulness of analytic strategies to study jobs, especially as to the nature of job content and organizational structures in which work is performed. In this context, research may take many forms including, but not limited to, bibliographic, empirical, methodological, model development, and theoretical investigations.

General Procedures and Policies

The explicit policy of the Fine Program is that grant funds may not be used for overhead or indirect costs. In the committee’s experience, most universities will waive overhead and indirect costs under two circumstances: (a) the grant is relatively modest in size (e.g., under $10,000), and/or (b) the awarding institution (i.e., SIOP) does not allow it. If the above statement disallowing funds to be used for overhead is insufficient, the chair of the Fine Award Committee will provide additional documentation and evidence explicitly recognizing this policy.

The Fine grant can be used in conjunction with other funding for a larger scale project. In this case, the proposal should describe the scope of the entire project, the entire budget, and the portion of the budget for which SIOP award money will be spent.

In order to encourage wide participation and a large variety of individuals and institutions involved in the program, an individual can only be involved in one proposal per review cycle per grant. In addition, individuals who received a Fine grant within the last 2 years are ineligible.

Criteria for Selecting Award Winners

The Fine Grant Subcommittee (appointed by the Awards Committee chair) will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria:

Have a sound technical or scientific base

Demonstrate innovation and excellence

Have the potential for advancing our understanding of jobs and/or methods of analyzing jobs

Be feasible and possible to complete within 2 years of the award date

Be submitted by members of SIOP including Student and International Affiliates

Have a clearly defined project plan, defined deliverables, and budget

Size of the Grant

The maximum size of the grant is up to $7,500.

Format of Proposals

The proposal must adhere to accepted formatting guidelines (e.g., APA guidelines) and should include the following:

Proposals should not exceed 10 pages of text (not including references, tables, appendices). The proposal should be double-spaced and use a 12-point font and 1 inch margins. The proposal must be a single document, either a Word document or a .pdf file, named to indicate the first author, as follows: lastname.doc or lastname.pdf.

If the research involves human participants, all awarded authors will need to certify, by signature or other means, that the research will be carried out in compliance with ethical standards concerning the treatment of human subjects (e.g., institutional review board or signed statement that the research will adhere to accepted professional standards regarding the treatment of human participants).

Proposals submitted with a Student Affiliate as the principal investigator should include a letter of endorsement from the student’s academic advisor.

Deliverables

All award recipients will be required to deliver two copies of a final report to the SIOP office within 2 years of the date of the award. This report will be forwarded to the SIOP Foundation.

Awardees should be aware that a synopsis of their research will be placed on the SIOP Web site. This synopsis will be of such a nature so as not to preclude subsequent publication of the research. Grant awardees will be encouraged to submit the results of their research for presentation at SIOP’s annual conference.